Confection-machine.



No. 829,997. PATENTBD AUG. 2.1, 1906. R. W. H. GRABB.

GUNPBCTION MACHINE. l

APPLIOATION FILED DEUA. 1905.

UiarrED4 sTATEs PATENT oEEroE. ROY W'. H. CRABB, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.

coN'FEcTloN-MAGHINE.

To all whom it may concern.-

citizen of the Unit'ed States, residing at Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement vin Confection Machines, of which .the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine forE lforming a confection resembling somewhat in appearance that of an ordinary doughnut,. and consisting of a suitable base of confec.y tion having nuts, puffed rice, or the. likev stirred therein.

The object of the invention is to shape and form the candy into what I term fritters and to deliver. the same to suitable pins upon which they are stacked or to packing-boxes when it is desired to box the fritters as soon as finished.

The invention consists of a pluralit of hinged boards adapted to fold upon a fyured board and upon each other, the boards when folded forming the molds, and a hinged board provided with suitable means for removing the finished article from one of the first-mentioned boards.

In. the drawings forming a part of this specification, Fi ure 1 is a perspective view of my complete device. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view taken through two of the molds, a portion of one of the boards being shown in dotted lines in position to have the finished product forced upon certain pins. y

In the drawings, A represents a suitable platform or table having an elevated central portion A', u on which rests a suitable board or rectan ar frame B, upon which are placed a urality of short upright posts B. Hinged to the board B is a board C, which has a plurality of circular openings C formed therein and equal in number to the posts B The openings C arevpreferably three inches in diameter and the board C one inch in thicki l ness.' Adjacent the bottom of the board when in position shown in Fig. 2-that is, when folded upon the board B-the openings C are provided With a one-fourth of an inch ange C2, which reduces the diameter of the openings C to two and one-half inches. The posts B are preferably about one inch in diameter; but it will be understood that the dimensions may be varied at pleasure, and the relative proportions above given are not followed in the sectional view. (Shown in Fig. 2.) Hinged to the board B on the side oppo- Speciication of Letters Patent. Application led December 4, 1905. Serial No. 290,253. f

-mold, and

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site the board C is a board D ofthe same size, and this board is provided with a plurality of sockets adapted to aline with v when the board D is folded upon the boards B and C. f

In practice I prefer to form these sockets by i attaching to the board D a plurality of rings D', the openings in the rings forming sockets, as shown at Dz. Upon the platform A is placed a standard A2, upon which the board D will rest when thrown into open position,

as shown in Fig. 1. Upon the opposite end of the platform are arranged standards E, provided with suitable shoulders upon which the board C rests when opened out, and in theupper end of these standards is pivoted a board F, provided with a plurality of knobs, which knobs are adapted to enter the openings C when the board F is folded over upon the board C. On the platform A is also arranged aplurality of upright pins G, which aline with the centers of the openings C when the board C is opened and in the position shown in Fig. 1.

The manner of operating the machine is as follows: The board C is thrown from open to closed or folded position lying upon the board B, and in this position the posts B register with the centers of the openings C', an annular space being formed between the posts and the sides of the openings, which space forms a in this mold the confection is placed by hand. The board D is then folded over upon the board C, the .sockets D2,

the posts B y formed by the rings D', registering with the posts BV and the rings slightly entering the mold formed by the openings C and packing the confection. The board D is then thrown back into open position and the board C is also thrown .back into open position, andl the shoulders C2 will prevent the fritters from remainin I upon the board B or falling from the boar C as it is raised. As soon as the board C has been thrown into the position shown in Fig. 1 the board F is folded down upon the board C, and the knobs F entering the opening C will force the confection therefrom, and this s will fall upon and encircle the pins G, an it'will be obvious, therefore, that the pins G will finally be filled by the rings of confection stacked upon them. It will also be obvious that removing the pins G and placing ordinary confectionery-boxes upon the platform in place of the pins the candy will be forced directly into the vboxes TOO IIO

and will not have to be handled in order to be packed; but Where the machine isl used in shop-windows and other places for advertising u oses the use ofthe pins is preferable, as tiie lfiiiished article Will be stacked and displayed as it is made.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the kind described comprising a frame, a board held in said frame and provided with posts, boards hinged to opposite sides of the board first mentioned and provided res ectively 'With openings and rings adapte to aline with the posts, and a board hinged to the frame and provided with knobs adapted to enter the openings above mentioned.

2. A device of the kind described comprising a board having a lurality of posts thereon, a second board nged to the first and having a plurality of openings, of greater diameter than the posts, and adapted to register with the posts When'the boards' are folded, a third board hinged also tothe first board having a plurality of sockets carried-thereby adapted to receive the u per ends of the osts, a board adapted to fol upon the boar .having the openings, and knobs carried by the said openings and force a material therefrom.

3. A device of the kind described comprising a stationary board having posts, a board hinged to the stationary board having circular openings, a board hinged to the stationary board o posite the first-mentioned hinged board and aving rings on. one face, the said hinged boards belng adapted to lie upon each other and coperate together to form a mold, and a board adapted to fit upon 'the board having the circular openings means for forcing a confection from the sai openings.

4. A device of the kind described comprising a stationary board and two boards hinged and carrying tothe opposite ends of theWstationary board, Y

said boards being adapted to coperate together to form a tempera mold, a plurality of ertical pins, said pins lining with circular openings in one of said boards when the said board is in an opened position, and means for forcing the material from said openings upon the pins.

RoY W. n. CRABB.

Witnesses:

L. PEAVEY, F. A. KEIGAN. 

